8 courses with the subject LING GU, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
LING GU4108LANGUAGE HISTORY3.00
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 LING W3101. Prerequisites: LING UN3101 Language, like all components of culture, is structured and conventional, yet can nevertheless change over time. This course examines how language changes, firstly as a self-contained system that changes organically and autonomously, and secondly as contextualized habits that change in time, in space, and in communities. Workload: readings ＆ discussion, weekly problems, and final examination
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 LING W3101. Prerequisites: LING 3101: Introduction to Linguistics and LING 4376: Phonetics ＆ Phonology This course provides training in linguistic fieldwork for language documentation and description. We will work with a speaker of an understudied language to investigate the structure of the language (its sounds, word and sentence formation, ways of expressing meaning, and usage) and learn about its speakers and their communities, both in NYC and abroad. Through this process, students will learn collaborative linguistic fieldwork techniques as well as the art of writing linguistic descriptions. This course will draw on all aspects of students’ linguistic training to date, and the success of the course will depend on our ability as a class to work together cooperatively with the language consultant and language community more broadly to document and describe the language
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 LING W3101. Prerequisites: LING UN3101 How discourse works; how language is used: oral vs. written modes of language; the structure of discourse; speech acts and speech genres; the expression of power; authenticity; and solidarity in discourse, dialogicity, pragmatics, and mimesis
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 Reading and discussion of scholarly literature on the cognitive approach to language, including: usage-oriented approaches to language, frame semantics, construction grammar, theories of conceptual metaphor and mental spaces; alongside of experimental research on language acquisition, language memory, prototypical and analogous thinking, and the role of visual imagery in language processing
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 LING W3101. An investigation of the possible types of grammatical phenomena (argument structure, tense/aspect/mood, relative clauses, classifiers, and deixis). This typological approach is enriched by the reading of actual grammars of languages from Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas in which gramatical descriptions are read with an eye to important notional concepts of grammar: reference and categorization, case and role of arguments with predicates (ergativity), tense/aspect/mood. Discussion of meaning is combined with attention to expression (that is, morphology), which yanks our attention towards language change (grammaticalization)
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 LING W3101. Prerequisites: LING UN3101 An investigation of the sounds of human language, from the perspective of phonetics (articulation and acoustics, including computer-aided acoustic analysis) and phonology (the distribution and function of sounds in individual languages)
How language structure and usage varies according to societal factors such as social history and socioeconomic factors, illustrated with study modules on language contact, language standardization and literacy, quantitative sociolinguistic theory, language allegiance, language, and power
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 LING W3101. Prerequisites: LING UN3101 Syntax - the combination of words - has been at the center of the Chomskyan revolution in Linguistics. This is a technical course which examines modern formal theories of syntax, focusing on later versions of generative syntax (Government and Binding) with secondary attention to alternative models (HPSG, Categorial Grammar)
